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Markino
5th October 2005, 06:21 PM
Hai guys!
Where do you have installed TomTOm 5 on your Jam?
I don't know if is better to install it on memory card, on RAM or on ROM.... :cry:

Obviusly the maps on SD... :wink:
But the app?
jackleung
6th October 2005, 07:56 AM
I install everything on SD. (need to modify the registry to move the voice file to SD) So far so good.
alexk
6th October 2005, 09:12 PM
I do install to the SD but it still intalled some files in main memory
jackleung
7th October 2005, 03:54 AM
I moved the files menually and modifiy the registry for the modified path
Smahatma
7th October 2005, 06:00 PM
I installed all of it to the ROM (did the bigstorage rom hack), except for the maps which are on SD.
Private-Cowboy
7th October 2005, 07:10 PM
Install into RAM at all costs. Why? Because internal ROM and SD-Cards are way slower then internal RAM, youll slow down the speed of programs quite a lot. Using a Qtek S110 with 128MB RAM this is no problem at all but even on my old iPAQ 5450 with only 64MB RAM is was easily possible leaving 32MB for program exection.
jackleung
8th October 2005, 02:03 AM
Install into RAM at all costs. Why? Because internal ROM and SD-Cards are way slower then internal RAM, youll slow down the speed of programs quite a lot. Using a Qtek S110 with 128MB RAM this is no problem at all but even on my old iPAQ 5450 with only 64MB RAM is was easily possible leaving 32MB for program exection.

I agree RAM is the fastest one but I don't think putting everything on SD has any noticeable performance hit to run TT5 at all (it does takes more time to load, that's it). In fact, I always run TT5 + IGuidiance 2.1 + BetaPlayer all at once without performance problem. I don't want to spend extra $$$ to upgrade to 128mb and I rather save more ram to run more programs by all the tricks. (I do manage to get 35-40 mb free with many programs installed)
jackleung
8th October 2005, 02:10 AM
I installed all of it to the ROM (did the bigstorage rom hack), except for the maps which are on SD.

Since we have to put the maps to SD anyway, I won't put the program to rom. Instead, I use my bigstorage for DLLs to save ram (by memmaid) and programs that still have to run even I need to swap the SD. Examples are:

1. Resco file explorer
2. betaplayer
3. Softick card export II.
4. Cyberon VoiceCommander (or MS Voicecommand)
5. Resco picture viewer
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